New START - Obama Presidency Oral History Index / Policies New START Transcripts John Podesta ...in, is this how you got involved in the New START [Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty... ...Because you wrote an op-ed piece on New START , taking the Republicans to task. Ho... Frank Rose ...was really focused on negotiating the New START [Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty... ...designed, basically, to implement the New START Treaty. It was really focused, again... ...early on the administration, is that New START , that would be a stopgap measure. Onc... ...measure. Once we quickly dealt with the New START issue, we would move on to the nex... ...apparatus. That is, they were signing New START not because they believed in a worl... ...do not. For Russia, that's not what New START was about. For Russia, New START wa... ...what New START was about. For Russia, New START was about maintaining strategic parit... ...just from a financial perspective. New START was a way to lock in that parity wit... ...number of my colleagues told me, after New START , “Oh, we're going to move forwar... ...She was the lead negotiator for the New START treaty, long history of working wit... ...biggest of these deals was to get the New START treaty through the US Senate. He wrot... ...That's exactly what happened with New START . The arms control skeptics, the... ...they weren't particularly crazy about New START , but they got a commitment to nuclea... ...for the modernization program, they got New START . Now, people on the left thought i... ...was really the only deal if you wanted New START to move forward. Frank, I'm wondering... ...tension between missile defense and New START . Coming back to the European missil... ...made it easier to move forward with the New START negotiations because missile defens... ...negotiations are going on in Geneva on New START . In the fall of 2009, we're goin... ...the endgame of the negotiations on New START . They get really upset. Then the Whit... ...upset because it's interfering with the New START negotiations. It did not prevent u... ...not prevent us from closing the deal on New START , but it was a problem. I think a lo... ...as I mentioned to you—they needed New START more than the United States did, to b... ...lot of noise—they were prepared to sign New START , because they needed it much mor... ...the resolution and ratification of the New START treaty, was the need to negotiat... ...These weapons are not covered by the New START treaty. New START treaty only deal... ...not covered by the New START treaty. New START treaty only deals with strategi... ...any reductions in near future, beyond New START , especially if the US was not going t... ...on further nuclear reductions beyond New START , and it's unlikely you're going to ge... ...during their tenure. Obama got the New START Treaty. Check. He was able to negotiat... ...reductions beyond what was agreed to in New START . Perhaps, had we been willing t... ...It wasn't a roadblock to signing New START , but I think it was a roadblock t... Show more... Victoria Nuland ...willing to do together? We had had the New START [Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty... ...had had some success with Putin. So the New START Treaty was an example of that. He wa... Ernest Moniz ...was a big price to be paid for the New START [Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty... ...Treaty] treaty. So the president got New START through. For those who are no... ...For those who are not familiar, the New START treaty was a further reduction in th... Related Topics go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa